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Mission
Oaklands Park Camphill Community is a member of the Association of Camphill Communities and is one of the eleven Adult Communities of the Camphill Village Trust. The Camphill Movement was founded by the Austrian paediatrician Dr. Karl Koenig (1902-1966) in Scotland in 1940 to create life-sharing communities for those in need of special care. It is inspired by the Chrisitian ideals and social ideas articulated by the Austrian philosopher and natural scientist Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). Camphill communities continue to provide today for the educational, cultural and social needs of people with a diverse range of disabilities in 90 centres in 21 different countries.
The Oaklands Park Community offers housing, work possibilities and an integrated community life-style to a broad spectrum of adults with different needs. A meaningful and largely independent life is offered to all in extended households or in individual settings, and is supported throughout by highly motivated co-workers within the framework of the Supporting People scheme.
Oklands Park Community pursues its wider aims in the practice of:
• Individual development and Social therapy (social responsibility and healing conviviality)
• Rural regeneration (work on and with the land and in land-related craft work)
• Sustainable living (shared economy, ecological awareness)
• Sustainable agriculture (Forest, farm and gardens managed by biodynamic methods)
• Cultural renewal (beyond mere entertainment)
• Further education and life-long learning
• Living Christian values